Walgreens took their sweet time filling the Rx for me. It was almost 10pm before I was able to get it. I better count to make sure they're all there.

I have to take 6 for three days, and then 5 for three days, 4 for three days and so on...

It's 18 days worth. 10mg each. I hope they work, and work quickly. I can feel the numbness getting worse as today has gone on.

My legs, both of them, feel really heavy and tired. Like I've done a ton of walking. I hope that's just spasticity and not something nastier.

My neuro had told me to take them before 7pm tonight, but because Walgreens was so agonizingly slow in filling the Rx, I'm going to wait till morning to take them. (going to try to take them before 9am.)

I thought about taking them tonight, but decided I'd like to be able to sleep. The first time I had oral pred, I was bouncing off the walls from the steroids, but I slept fairly well from what I remember. I'm a little worried it'll make my insomnia worse, since when I had IVSM earlier this summer, that did worsen the insomnia.

I just want the numbness in my hand gone. I think I hurt my hand, (one of the fingers) yesterday, because it's swollen today and looks bruised. I dont know what I did to it, but I'm guessing that because it's numb, I didnt feel the original injury. I can still move it (stiffly, but it moves) so I'm guessing it's just a sprain or a bad bruise.

I really want the itchiness to go away too. I'm trying not to scratch, but I'm worried I'm going to flay the skin off scratching it. I cant wait to get the steroids going in the morning. I'm getting up early for a breakfast of cherry yogurt and applesauce, with a cinnamon Altoid chaser.

I hope the prednisone doesnt taste too disgusting. It was nasty when I had it in 2007. The taste was the reason I went for the IVSM for my vision (along with the fact that I read the Optic Neuritis Treatment Trial that says no oral pred to treat ON)